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Protests against globalization, particularly against investment abroad by American-based multinational companies (MNCs), have highlighted “sweatshop” conditions in garment plants in less developed countries (LDCs) that produce for the United States market.1 In many ways, the garment industry is unique and, in fact, it attracts only a small proportion of investment

Throughout the ages, making clothing was the responsibility of the housewife, who sewed her family’s garments at home. This was still the case in the early years of the United States. In his 1791 Report on the Subject of Manufactures, Alexander Hamilton wrote that in a number of districts two-thirds